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The party is level 4, and encounters a young blue dragon (level 6 solo). The dragon hovers at 20 squares above the party, peppering it with it's lightning burst (range 20, burst 2, 1d6+4 lightning damage, half on miss.) How can a party that doesn't have tons of skilled archers kill the beast...

It looks very good and accurate. I only found a few very minor things so far. Ridiculous stuff like the ranger sample character not featuring twin strike :) Other than that, I'm happy - I'll go ahead and optimize my party's 3rd level characters.

yeah our group looked at the stacking of crit/kill free attacks, and ruled it's possible to do both. They are both free actions, and no rules says you can't have 2 free actions. Too bad rampage is limited to only one attack per round :) I usually start the encounter with charging into a minion...

Eladrin Barbarian playtest experience Just playtested my Eladrin Barbarian yesterday. Using greatspear with reach, howling strike whenever possible, and pressing strike. He killed a lot, rolled lots of crits, and got swift charge every encounter. Because of his free attacks resulting from...

So this means the keyword feats like Raging Storm are basically meant for wizards or any other classes that doesn't use weapons to specialize in. They have a nice feat here which allows them to increase the damage from their favorite damage type, just like a fighter invests in weapon focus...

If that's the case, the Eladrin +2 bonus wouldn't stack with the +1 from Raging Storm when I use the at-will from the weapon? Another question: The daily says: Does that mean I first push the target (up to) 2 squares, and THEN apply the lightning damage? This makes a big difference since the...

Yeah. I hit with the spear, causing the spear damage +2 from Eladrin, and then roll 1d8 lightning damage, adding the +1 from Raging Storm. It wouldn't make sense otherwise anyway, because why would the adjacent creatures suffer the extra damage but the poor fellow who got struck first not.

I can only assume they didn't want to overpower it this way, because that extended reach is already awesome.

I do know that bonus don't stack unless they are from "different types" (see quote below.) Now if you have Eladrin Soldier (+2 feat bonus on damage with spears), Raging Storm (+1 feat bonus on damage with the keyword "lightning"), and you use the Weapon of Myrdroon's Shard, please tell me, is...

I do that too. These actions add a lot of flavor and excitement to the end of a fight, when it could as well just drag on with the monster being beaten to death. If a monster tries to run away, and provokes opportunity attacks, the players get very excited, and the challenge to kill it or let it...

Warlord/Barbarian team Here is a possible sequence with 1 or 2 warlords and 1 Barbarian: 1) Barbarian moves into position for a charge, and then attacks with Howling Strike, and hopefully hits. The Barbarian doesn't provoke OA when charging during rage. Outside rage he just eats it up. If...

I wonder how many people don't follow this rule. I certainly didn't last time I played the barbarian.

That's not entirely true. PHB 294: since recuperating strike is the same source, I think you can stack them.

Regarding at-will powers: Is it a good rule of thumb to 1) always take Howling Strike 2) take Recuperating Strike only with high CON, like a +4 bonus, and if you intend to get beaten up in the middle of melee 3) take Pressing Strike if using a reach weapon, or are low on CON, or want to be...

I'm sorry, but I'm a little confused now. Can someone post an interpretation that summarizes the issue of "direct" movement? I need something to present to the DM... My interpretation right now is: Directly means, you need to take the shortest available route, measured in number of squares...

There is a lot of confusing discussion of the "direct" movement requirement while charging. Does it mean a straight line, or the shortest? What if there are obstacles or enemies in the way? Does anybody know an official answer on this? I have read extremely contradicting arguments.

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Please help me out on this one... ....... ...E... ....o.. .....o. ..EEEo. ...Fo..In the diagram above, "F" is a PC (fighter or whatever), "E" are enemies. "o" represents the intended line of movement. Is it OK to speed past the frontline of enemies to get to the guy in the back as a part of...

Improve Charging is the key I played a 3rd level dwarf barbarian on Sunday. He's now 4th level (sheet below). I too was overall pleased, but a bit disappointed since I didn't kill an enemy once, or landed a crit (although I did a lot of damage), and thus couldn't do rampage etc. I also got...

just found this thread searching for tips on dungeon tiles. My idea is to tape them on a sheet of paper with double-sided tape. I tested it with 3M, and they don't seem to harm the surface. This way I can prepare most encounter areas in advance and pull them out when needed, without assembling...